via Danny Bowes at Tor Based on the popular young-adult novel (one of whose co-writers, I was highly amused to learn, is James Frey) comes the no-expenses-spared cinematic adaptation I Am Number Four. Overseen by the inimitable Michael Bay—famous for his quiet, sensitive, meticulously observed meditations on the human condition—and … Continue reading →

Roland Emmerich’s low budget sci-fi flick shuts down by Simon Brew at Den of Geek It raised eyebrows, at the very least. Last week, we reported the news that budget spender extraordinaire, Mr Roland Emmerich, was putting aside the requirement for a big cheque to a special effects company to … Continue reading →

Colin Strause and Liam O’Donnell Interview: Skyline, science-fiction, the studio system and more by Luke Savage at Den of Geek How excited should we be about Skyline? Quite excited, if those trailers are anything to go by. The second film from special effects gurus-turned-filmmakers Colin and Greg Strause (should we … Continue reading →

‘Paul’ casting call by Jarett Wieselman at New York Post Because we still have a lot of time between now and “Paul’s” March 2011 bow, I am going to keep the gushing to a minimum based on this outstanding new teaser trailer that was just released. Instead of lavishing compliments … Continue reading →

Vampire problem could pose threat to Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks team-up Melissa Mercer at Examiner All it takes is a quick peek at Johnny Depp’s IMDb page to realize his demand among directors, and now Deadline is reporting that Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow has her sights set on … Continue reading →

New Murder Mystery Introduces a Paranormal Mansion, Psychic and Detectives Via PR.com Mysteerie Manor, a new murder mystery by Sharon Hays, is the first in a series that tells the story of a historical mansion and its connection to paranormal and criminal activity. Mysteerie Manor follows Maryanne O’Donnell, a young … Continue reading →

www.wired.com: Harry Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows This is one of the latest TV spots for the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which comes out November 19th. We can see some new scenes, such as Voldemort, Harry and Hagrid fighting in the air, the Burrow … Continue reading →

‘Walking Dead’ exec slams vampire craze www.digitalspy.co.uk: The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont has slammed the current vampire craze in film and television. He told SFX that he hopes viewers will abandon vampire-based shows for the new zombie drama. “I hope seeing a zombie show as cool as this, seeing … Continue reading →

Does Your Favorite Sci-fi Movie Do Right by Its Female Characters? by John Scalzi for Film Critic Have you ever heard of the Bechdel test? It’s a test, popularized by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, that asks three questions of movies: 1. Are there at least two women characters in the film? … Continue reading →

Stargate + Lord of the Flies = Sol? by Nix at Sci Fi Cool What is Benjamin Carland’s “Sol”? I don’t know, but from the looks of the teaser trailer, it sure looks and sounds like a mixture of “Stargate” (humans travel to another planet by way of a “gate”) … Continue reading →

Two confirmed villains for X-Men prequel, another Thor picture, and a presidential cameo in Transformers 3 Source: io9.com X-Men: First Class has brought on two awesome actors to play major villains. Will Transformers 3 start with a presidency-themed flashback? There’s a new image of Odin and Thor doing godly stuff. … Continue reading →

Star Trek writer adapting Heinlein’s Have Spacesuit for a film By Scott Edelman at Sci Fi Wire One of Robert A. Heinlein greatest novels, Have Space Suit—Will Travel—the last the author published specifically for a young audience—is being adapted for the big screen by Harry Kloor, who’s written for Star … Continue reading →

Plan 9 From Outer Space Being Converted to 3D from Uncle Creepy at Dread Central San Diego-based 3D production and conversion studio PassmoreLab has some big plans. The company is about to take the Ed Wood, Jr. zombie “classic” Plan 9 From Outer Space, which was colorized a couple of … Continue reading →

New Inception Character Posters by David Chen at Slash Film We’ve already covered the numerous posters that have been released for Christopher Nolan’s Inception here, here, and here. But in my humble opinion, this latest batch of character posters is the most badass of them all. The posters hit the … Continue reading →

Why Predators is the sequel we’ve been dying for by Jeff Otto at Sci Fi Wire Deep in the jungles of Austin, Texas, the Predators are readying for the hunt. Yes, I said Texas. When Predators hits screens this summer, few audience members will ever guess that the bulk of … Continue reading →

‘Dark Knight’ sequel gets official release date via Khaleej Times Warner Bros. has set July 20, 2012, as the release date for the third Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movie. The studio has barely begun the process of developing the movie, which isn’t yet titled. Nolan is in postproduction on the sci-fi … Continue reading →

Is Iron Man 3 Really Coming Out Before The Avengers? io9.com: Did a slip of the tongue reveal Paramount’s plans for a third Iron Man movie, even a month before Iron Man 2 is coming out? Which movie will come first: Iron Man 3 or The Avengers? With a tentative … Continue reading →

By Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. io9: When io9 asked me if I could break away from my busy schedule of being awesome and create some disastrous Valentines . . . How could I say no? I love you all, and dammit you deserve it!!! So view these, send these, or print … Continue reading →

A new poster for Repo Men is out, and seeing it made me realize just how close Repo Men could be to Repo! The Genetic Opera. Both movies focus on a future when replacement organs are available…for a price. If you don’t pay, your organs are repo-ed when and where … Continue reading →

“Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never have been born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off! ” In the … Continue reading →

from Prairie Miller at News Blaze: Daybreakers Movie Review What with the rabid quest for dwindling supplies of oil on an increasingly depleted Planet Earth these days, likewise running amok on screen is imperialism as predatory metaphor, in Avatar and now the post-apocalyptic vampire binge Daybreakers not far behind. Which … Continue reading →

From Mike Scalise at Movie Fone: ‘Alice in Wonderland’: Even More Wonderfully Weird in Full-Length Trailer When the first trailer for Tim Burton’s live-action take on Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ premiered at Comic-Con in July, it seemed like Burton had all the pieces in place for another goth-stained, Burtonesque … Continue reading →

io9.com: The past decade has seen a lot of bloated special-effects brain-sucks… but it’s also seen some of the best science-fiction films ever. Superhero films came of age, apocalypses ruled, and interstellar adventures came back. Here are the decade’s 20 greatest. Avatar. I’m going to post my review of this … Continue reading →

First Avatar screening receives a standing ovation! scifiwire.com: Moviegoers in London rose to their feet in praise of James Cameron’s new SF feature Avatar, lauding the technical achievements of the hugely expensive epic, CNN reports. Cameron has reinvented genre cinema before with the still-pretty-awesome CGI of 1992’s Terminator 2: Judgment … Continue reading →

The Twilight Saga News Wrap-up: Feminism, Twilight and the End of the World “Eclipse” Exciting Novel New TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Hi-Res One Sheet More here TWILIGHT CASTING CALL A SCAM AIMED AT TEENS BIG QUESTIONS SURROUND BREAKING DAWN THE BLIND SIDE KNOCKS NEW MOON OUT OF #1 SPOT! More … Continue reading →

By Ella Saltmarshe at Treehugger When we think about the future of the world, it’s mostly bad. I’m not sure when this dawned on me. It could have been while watching Dune or Children of Men or The Road or perhaps while reading Margaret Atwood’s brilliant new Armageddon novel, The … Continue reading →